Taking a snapshot of a program using a command?

shydra · 03-02-2006, 04:33 AM

Hi all.
I have to take a snapshot of a program via a command. The distro is Red HAt 7.3, with very simple instalation. No KDE and Gnome. only Motif.There is no ksnapshot available.
Can i run the program but the gui have to be forwarded to a gif,jpg,png file?

I tried to run the program on Gentoo linux but the program is compiled with very old libraries - zinc.

I only want to take a snapshots of this program.
Thanks in advance if anybody help me.

dive · 03-02-2006, 04:36 AM

If you mean a screenshot then 'import pic.gif' or 'import pic.jpg' will do it, if you have imagemagick installed.

shydra · 03-02-2006, 05:04 AM

No, there is no imagemagick installed.
Any ideas?

dive · 03-02-2006, 05:20 AM

I only know that and the kde programs but Imagemagick is quite small so I would suggest installing it.

nx5000 · 03-02-2006, 05:23 AM

xwd -out file -id xxx
xwud -in file
you can use convert to convert it

homey · 03-02-2006, 05:56 AM

The convert utility is part of ImageMagick.

The only two really console tools for this that I can think of are script and setterm.
For example:

Type the command: script
The ouput is saved in a file called typescript
Use ctrl d to end the capture

setterm -dump 2-NR-CONSOLES
cat screen.dump > /dev/lp0

shydra · 03-02-2006, 06:12 AM

Thanks to everybody, I used a xwd.
The images are all green but the important thing is the information.
Thaks a lot to everybody.